Recent content by Bogotron

I am beginning to agree with you... There is something weird going on with horizontal vs. vertical lines. And red lines seem to be really powerful compared to the other two colors. I can't really lose any sleep other it tho, since I have to sit almost on top of the screen to even see it. At 2.8m...

You're right, I forgot the E at the end. It is the TH-50PZ700E I've got. Output is 1920x1080 (noninterlaced) HDMI from onboard Intel G35 via a Denon amp to the HDMI #1 input on the back of the screen. (Please stop mocking me for using an onboard gfx chip, I'm only doing it for the 8 channel PCM...

Don't think so. I just tried this on my European 50PZ700. Test pattern: And resulting (cropped) output: Now if you take into account camera artifacts and other settings that influence the image (color temp etc) that looks pretty identical to me. At least no downsampling of the chroma...

Novellas and short stories are the way to go, but even they are easy to mess up. Take Johnny Mnemonic as an example (Hey! Guess who plays the lead character! :) ). Not the greatest story ever, but the movie is just awful. Again they kept some (mostly insignificant) parts and put in a whole lot...

I'm agreeing mostly with Clashman. The entire Matrix "experience" was completely ruined for me because someone told me it was a really deep movie and you really really really have to think and watch it multiple times to get all the facets of the story, etc. etc. yadda yadda. Ofcource I was...

I'd say that I download 100-150GB/month. If you ask what or from where, I'd have to take the 5th.... :D

The WTC towers didn't collaps due to structural damage from the aircraft crashing into them. If it was they would have collapsed sooner. It was the fire that was the main factor. [discovery channel knowledge] If the fire proofing on the support girders had been maintained properly the towers...

Thanks for the links. I guess I'll have to get used to blogging, so it might as well be now. :) Funny you mention that. If this article is anything to go by, then it wasn't so small after all. But it is fairly common nowadays to report grossly exaggerated news if there is little actual...

That is the main concernt with reports from the region. It's hard to know if Mr. Mansour is the village idiot, laying it on really thick so the fancy westerners will feel sorry for him or simply telling the honest truth. Most probably not, since I haven't been there and digging up...

People still had water and power. Water supplies looked a bit touch and go some places early in the war, but were brought back after a couple of weeks (have you any idea what it's like in a desert country with no water? I imagine it can get pretty bad after "only" a couple of days.), but power...

Joe DeFuria: Ummm... (searches cnn in vain) Umm... He didn't. :oops: He said combat (operations?) was over. Guess the war is still "going strong".

Umm.... It's the aftermath of a war that razed most of the infrastructure in a country? It's (parts of) the Iraqi people fed up being under US military rule? These were the two things I (personally) was worried could happen after "the war" was finished and, unfortunately, it's come true...

Nope, nothing like that. Has worked fine for over a year with the only downtime being OS upgrade and a couple of windows update reboots. I'd think so. I've got a new motherboard for the diskbox (IC7-G w/2.4GHz P4), but I haven't had the guts to try it on the current PSU yet since my 12v rail is...

Natoma: My disk server runs on a 430W Enermax PSU and it powers 13 harddisks, 7 case fans and a P3-700. The 650W/550W is overkill. Won't really matter much. For office use anything over 1GHz is more than enough, and for games sometimes the P4 is faster and sometimes the AMD is faster. Unless you...

The short, short version is that Star Trek physics doesn't add up and the writers can't keep the universe internally consistent. Everyone who's surprised by this, raise a hand..... :D